Food Dehydrators. Does anyone use them to great effect ?

Wraithlady

I suppose you could pulp then sieve the blackberries to make fruit leather

Bluegreen143

My oven goes down to 50C so I’ve used that for drying fruit leathers and apples etc before. Does the dehydrator give better results, cost less to run, or am I better sticking with my oven?

mumf

Bluegreen143 said:

My oven goes down to 50C so I’ve used that for drying fruit leathers and apples etc before. Does the dehydrator give better results, cost less to run, or am I better sticking with my oven?

A dehydrator has a fan,so there is good airflow. I would say that makes it more efficient.I use mine for drying the many tomatoes I grow,and fruit and veg that would otherwise be wasted.Mushrooms are excellent done that way.

CapricornLass

I've used my dehydrator to make fruit leathers.  However, with blackberries, I think I would add some apple puree as well, to give the pulp more body.

-taff

you need @boazu

-taff

Search on the prepping thred for their posts and there'll be a lot of info when you find the dehydrating flurry.